Quotes by Dan Decarlo - Page 1

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Creator
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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Timely
Hired
Lee
Stan
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Twenty
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Ad
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Book
Firsts
Teenager
Ten
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Father
Gardener
Made
Want
Comics
Laborer
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Frank
Input
Anyway
Designed
Direction
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There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
New York
Cities
Eleven
New York City
Publishers
Thinking
Finally
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Bigs
Break
Successful
Big Break
Model
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Developing
Long
Publishers
Thinking
Years
Willie
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Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Comic
Comic Book
Archie
Richard
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I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
Dan Decarlo / Cartoonist
Comic
Comic Book
Illustrations
Influenced
Norman
Samples
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